Brown v. Mutual Benefit Life Insurance
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On appeal from a decree of the chancellor, on the advisory opinion of the vice-chancellor, reported in Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Co. v. Brown, 3 Stew. Eq. 193.
1Opinion of the Court
*810The opinion of the court was delivered by
Scudder, <L
On bill for foreclosure of a mortgage executed by Israel H. Morehouse and wife to the complainants, dated September 20th, 1856, to secure the payment of $2,500, on land in the city of Newark, the defendants answer that the mortgagors had no title to the land, nor authority to make the loan and execute the mortgage.
On February 27th, 1852, the defendant Robert P. Brown left Newark for California, where he remained about twelve months; from there, he went to Australia, and returned to Newark, May 16th, 1864. At the time of leaving, he was the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Gregg v. Von PhulSupreme Court of the United States · 1864
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